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OBITUARIES, UNITED STATES. 



where lie was in active business eleven years. 

 In 1845 lie commenced mercantile business in 

 Boston, having his family residence in Chelsea, 

 where for more than twenty years he held the 

 love and respect of the community. In 1859 

 and 1860 he represented the first Suffolk dis- 

 trict in the State Senate ; and from 1862 to 1865 

 he was a member of Governor Andrew's Ex- 

 ecutive Council, for Suffolk County. In both 

 these positions he commended himself by sound 

 judgment and fidelity to the trusts committed 

 to him. In 1853, when an important vacancy 

 occurred in the Executive Committee of the 

 American Baptist Missionary Union, he was 

 elected to fill it, and, two years later, he was 

 chosen Treasurer, which position he held nine 

 years, giving to its duties gratuitously a large 

 amount of time, thought, and personal ser- 

 vice. 



Nov. 22. HALL, DAVID P., an eminent law- 

 yer of New York City, died there. He was 

 born in Pomfret, Conn., July 15, 1798, and 

 graduated with distinction at Harvard College 

 in the class of 1820. For three successive years 

 he gained the Bowdoin prize for English com- 

 position. Removing to New York City, he stud- 

 ied law under the late Mr. Wheaton, and was 

 admitted to the bar in 1824. At one time he 

 was in partnership with his brother, the late 

 Jonathan Prescott Hall, and afterward prac- 

 tised alone. In the old Court of Chancery Mr. 

 Hall gained a high reputation, and his name in 

 the courts of law was equally well known. He 

 practised much before the late Chancellors 

 Kent and Wai worth and Vice-Chancellor Mc- 

 Coun, and was much esteemed by them, as well 

 as by his brethren of the bar, as a master of 

 equity jurisprudence. 



Nov. 23. THOMPSON, General WADDY, M. C. 

 from South Carolina ; died in Tallahassee, Fla. 

 He was born in Pickensville, Pendleton Dis- 

 trict, S. C., on the 8th of September, 1798, and, 

 having graduated at the South Corolina Col- 

 lege, studied law and was admitted to the bar 

 in December, 1819. He rapidly rose to the 

 head of his profession. In 1826 he was elect- 

 ed to the State Legislature, and served until 

 that body made him, in 1830, Solicitor of the 

 Western Circuit. During the Calhoun nullifi- 

 cation excitement the Legislature made him 

 brigadier-general. In 1835 the Whigs of the 

 third district elected him to Congress, and he 

 was reflected until 1841, serving in 1840 as 

 Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. 

 When Calhoun, who lived in his district, went 

 over to the Democratic party, all the Whig 

 members from South Carolina, but General 

 Thompson, followed his lead. In 1842 Presi- 

 dent Tyler appointed him minister to Mexico, 

 and, during his mission, he made two impor- 

 tant treaties, and secured the liberation of more 

 than two hundred Texan prisoners. On his 

 return, he wrote a book entitled " Reminiscen- 

 ces of Mexico," which passed through several 

 editions. He was an extensive and successful 

 cotton planter in Florida, but spent the greater 



part of his time after his return from Mexico 

 on his estate near Greenville, S. C. 



Nov. 24. POLLARD, HENRY RIVES, editor of 

 The Southern Opinion, was assassinated in 

 Richmond, Va., aged 35 years. He was the 

 son of Major Richard Pollard, formerly an 

 officer in the U. S. Navy, and was born in 

 Nelson County, Ya., where he passed his early 

 life. He finished his education at the Yirginia 

 Military Institute, whence he went to Wash- 

 ington. There he was employed for a time in 

 the Post-Office Department. When the war 

 broke out he was news editor of The Balti- 

 more Sun, but he immediately gave up that po- 

 sition, and, removing to Richmond, became one 

 of the editors of The Examiner. Soon after 

 the close of the War, Mr. Pollard, in connec- 

 tion with Mr. Charles H. Wynne, established 

 The Richmond Times newspaper, and remained 

 with it until the summer of that year, and then 

 retired. In 1866 he revived The Examiner, 

 and controlled its editorial columns until some 

 time in 1867, when he disposed of it to Thom- 

 as H. Wynne, Esq. He next established The 

 Southern Opinion, and was until his death its 

 editor and proprietor. He died by the hand 

 of a young man, by the name of Grant, who 

 felt himself aggrieved by an article in Mr. Pol- 

 lard's paper reflecting upon a member of his 

 family. 



Nov. 25. ARNOLD, MAYER, formerly an emi- 

 nent merchant of Philadelphia, died in that city, 

 aged 83 years. He emigrated to this country 

 in 1805 from Wurtemburg, and at once engaged 

 in the wholesale dry-goods trade in Philadel- 

 phia, retiring from active business in 1845. 

 After that time he confined his attention to char- 

 itable objects, and was president or treasurer 

 for a number of societies having for their ob 

 ject the amelioration of the condition of tho 

 poor. He was one of the founders of the Man 

 ufacturers' and Mechanics' Bank of Philadel 

 phia, and held a high position in the Masonic 

 fraternity, having become a Master in that 

 order in 1812. 



Nov. 27. ELLIOTT, Major JOEL M., U. S. A., 

 was killed in a battle with the Cheyennes, and 

 Arrapahoes, on the Washita River, near Ante- 

 lope Hills, Indian Territory. He was a brave 

 and skilful officer. 



Nov. 27. NICHOLS, Professor JOHN A., LL. D., 

 of the College of New York, died at his resi- 

 dence, aged 47 years. He was well known as a 

 man of thorough scholarship and culture. In 

 1852 he was chosen to the chair of Experimen- 

 tal Philosophy, as the successor of General W. 

 B. Franklin, and the same year was transferred 

 to that of Mixed Mathematics in the same in- 

 stitution. 



Nov. 28. PETTICOLAS, Dr. ARTHUR E., Su 

 perintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, 

 Virginia, committed suicide at Williamsburg, 

 by leaping from a window. He was an emi- 

 nent physician, and formerly professor in the 

 Medical College there. He had been partially 

 insane for some months. 



